Saturday, 31 December 2011

To celebrate the arrival of the new year, there will be a sale at my zest4colour shop from the 1st till the 15th of January.
With coupon code "welcome2012", you get a 10% discount on all items in the shop.

Friday, 30 December 2011

Here it is, the finished baby quilt I told you about in this post.It took me far longer than I had expected to finish it.And of course - just in case my family was reading this blog - I couldn't show you the final result before I presented the quilt to my niece.About the finishing touches:I found inspiration in this book:

I used the pattern of this little bird, I just reduced the size:

Here is my bird:

I machine embroidered all around the body and wing and hand -embroidered the eye, beak and legs.

As another detail, I took a bird image from "Wing study in pastille" from the Botanika collection from Paula Prass.

I decided to use freehand quilting for the off-white cotton around the blocks. My Bernina machine was very happy to do all the stitching for me using the BSR foot. I just had to guide her? all the way. This quilting made the coloured blocks come forward.Have a look:

This freehand quilting also gave a gorgeous pattern on the back.Look:

I added a Zest4colour label

and finished the quilt by hand-quilting the binding to the back of the quilt, this way:

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I used a lovely DMC pearl cotton tapestry thread to do this.Here are some final pictures:

I can humbly say that this quilt was a big success at our family gathering for Christmas.

Welcome

I´m glad you found my blog.
Let me introduce myself.
I have a part-time medical job and am a mam with 3 boys. For Bloggersworld I will call them: ¨The 3 Musketeers¨, as they often behave like that. My husband, Mr. Musketeer , has a very busy medical practice.
We live in a rural village in the east of Flanders, the Flemish (Dutch) speaking part of Belgium.
In this blog I hope to share some of my sewing treasures with you.
Kristien